Adventure Club - Open Water Kingdom Swim
Sarah Barcello is a lover of all kinds of human powered efforts, an ultramarathoner, a triathlete, a Stoke Squad Member, and now officially a 5K Open Water Swimmer!!
Sarah recently finished the Kingdom Swim in Lake Memphremagog which straddles the US/Canadian border in Northern Vermont. She dipped her toes into "swimming" when she started formal swim lessons only 17 months ago. At that time, Sarah couldn't even swim the length of the pool!
Fast forward to less than a year and half later and Sarah has completed something that very, VERY, few people have done! Check out the pics and stats from her adventure below and give Sarah some love for flying the HPM Adventure Club Flag in style!
Sarah recently finished the Kingdom Swim in Lake Memphremagog which straddles the US/Canadian border in Northern Vermont. She dipped her toes into "swimming" when she started formal swim lessons only 17 months ago. At that time, Sarah couldn't even swim the length of the pool!
Fast forward to less than a year and half later and Sarah has completed something that very, VERY, few people have done! Check out the pics and stats from her adventure below and give Sarah some love for flying the HPM Adventure Club Flag in style!
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Stats and Snippets
- Event: Kingdom Open Water Swim
- Location: Lake Memphremagog, Newport, VT
- Distance: 5k (3.1 miles) Open Water Swim
- Time: 2 hrs 32 mins 41 secs
- Pace: 2:47/100 yards
- According to the World Open Water Swimming Association, fewer than 2.3% of people can swim a mile in open water, and Sarah just swam over 3 miles!!
- Lake Memphremagog is said to be inhabited by a mysterious lake monster known to locals as "Memphre"
- The lore surrounding Memphre is an indigenous legend, with the first documented sightings dating back to 1816
- Sarah was honored to carry Adventure Club Flag #6, the same exact flag that her bestie Christina DePriest carried over the finish line at the Milan Marathon
